INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-QUANTUM EFFICIENCY INGAAS/INP AND INGAAS/GAAS QUANTUM DOTS

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作者
SCHMIDT, A [1 ]
FORCHEL, A [1 ]
STRAKA, J [1 ]
GYURO, I [1 ]
SPEIER, P [1 ]
ZIELINSKI, E [1 ]
机构
[1] SEL ALCATEL RES CTR,STUTTGART,GERMANY
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JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B | 1992年 / 10卷 / 06期
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10.1116/1.585983
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Using selective wet-chemical etching of the top barrier material of a quantum well, we have fabricated effectively buried quantum dots in the material systems InGaAs/InP and InGaAs/GaAs. The patterning is carried out on InGaAs quantum well samples masked by a high-resolution negative e-beam resist which is used as etch mask. A lateral potential well is formed due to the change of the energy barrier between the original quantum well and the surface quantum well regions. The photoluminescence shows a high efficiency as well as a shift of the luminescence signal to higher energy as the structure size is decreased. For InGaAs/InP single quantum well samples the emission of the open surface quantum well is detected. The emission of the lateral barrier regions is blue-shifted by about 24 meV compared to an unetched reference.
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页码:2896 / 2899
页数:4
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